All That I Got Is You

All That I Got Is You Lyrics

[Intro One: The Education of Sonny Carson]
'What they gives you, blood?'
'Three months, man.'
'Whatchu doin in here anyway? You oughta be home with your momma. How old are you boy?'
'Thirteen.'
'Thirteen? Damn, the bastards must be runnin' outta niggas to arrest.'

[Hook: Mary J. Blige]
All that I got is you
And I'm so thankful I made it through
All that I got is you
And I'm so thankful I made it through
All that I got is you
And I'm so thankful I made it through
All that I got is you
And I'm so thankful I made it through
All that I got is you
And I'm so thankful I made it through

[Ghostface during the hook]
Word up mommy, I love you
Word up
It was all you, word, you brought me in like this

About “All That I Got Is You”

In this track off 1996’s Ironman, Ghost describes his childhood and the struggles his moms went through to raise him. In the rather clichéd category of rappers describing how hard they came up in life, this surely ranks right up there at the top of the hard knock life leaderboard, and goes some way towards explaining Ghostface’s extremely over-the-top flashiness and opulence post-rise to fame.
Needless to say, Mary J. Blige is on the hook so it was commercially successful.